Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Greenane (bear By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greenane (bear By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Doonbeg Head (1901)
- Coordinates
- 51.61304, -9.88510
- SMR number
- CO128-005----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Large sub-rectangular area projecting SW from Bear Island into Bantry Bay. Low earthen bank (H 1m) runs across neck; shallow fosse on both sides of bank; field fence to landward side. Interior divided axially by natural fault. Rectangular hut site (6m x 3m) and various anomolous groupings of stones to E, on lower side.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.